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VOL. XVI. NO. 50.
NEW YOKK, SATUKDAY, MAY 3, 1856.
WHOLE NO. 830.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY, ON SATURDAY,
CHIVALRY AND CIIKES
mg the CI
his?hlv res
Peming & Co., ol
joined with others in tendering a testimonial of regard to
John Jollify, Msq., for during, in tin- tree country, tn <le-
i-i !■■ ''■
peace of the Union. At this hd.li-hau.le.l - [miata-ism "
tiie Nashville merchants,before alluded tn.to.il: umbrage.
Their rights hud be. t, grossly trampled upon, and—and
—and they—wouldn't eat any more of his cheese—not a
bit of it: After a full discussion of the matter in its
relations to "our glorious institutions," the aforesaid
cheese merchants ol Nashville ventilated, with a most
patriotic letter
Rev. Messrs. James
were appointed a C<
Carolina, where they abolished the
res among the
South." The Presbytery
'Then
ti firm, from which a
r readers with
Then'. Mess!',', edrai-bl, Hei.iin;:' ,V dm, yen have il in
plain English. Ho long as your senior (Mr. Straight)
persists in not looking right straight ft
pies into hi' ]-■" lots, vim!' cheese trade with the chivalry
of Nashville must, sn'tld'. Ilul wn will not detain our
render,, iron) a portion of the manly, firm ami itrniglit-
t'orwaril r, ply of Mr. Straight to his Nashville customers.
It is worthy of being carefully studied :
.'■■'■' ■ . ■ I d . I ■ ■ l | . . : i I I
i.o., but cannot
that account forbear saying tl
"sell their goods and not their principles,:' tiny will
fifty thousand readers of 7'he Independen
nong which are a very large number of me
her Straight, Deming & Co. Their cheese
West, among which are a s-crv lance
ight flavour. Try
THE REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
AND SLAVERY.
: holder
e for declining the calf. "The Presby-
ng, by the stand thus taken, the snhj.vt regit -
oeiore them, resolved to purge the Church of the
They enacted that no slaveholder should be retained
and Samuel B. Wyii
visit South Carolina,..___
holding slaves among the members of their Oborch
The Presbytery approved '"
:, and required of their
on tlie side or liberty. They Inn
itisfied with. If the only object
live fd.i'e. there is. no use it, e
'he Old Whig organisation, or tin
ould suffice for lhat. If this
Set) broken up, and the count
lord'.- to redr.ss a single wrmi-
nh all it- capacities for mischn
that has committed it, then ine
able to take care of them-
their right to use the t'eilei'iti
ishment of liberty, and prevent
prostituted to the extension of slavery,
sment—the reorgnniznlion of thi" 1
"h^^V^^V^'^II.i^^i^^uToWi
its strength.
incompetent were placed under the immediat
pared for it ; and ail deeds of eiinitn:-ipaii.">n w
" uoper civil court. One individual (
lit to the Presbytery's deed of'cmuncij
in general were in very moderate ci
I'liristiLin principle il!..:
and, in several other parts of the United State
the altar of religion tin:-' proper ij
gave tb. in in their fellow-men."
.rch, 1850, in a Idter from tbe Gene
this Church to the Synod in Scotland, it wai
Chnrch we continue to maintain a (
inst this great si
o take the ph
nearly half a cetdury ? Tin' I'reside
that Power have always found a beaiii
them, prescribed formulas, routine work.
r, like the People, tbey had been traint
How different the position of a Presid
ie People against the Oligarchy I Kepre
tion, peaceful, but radical, what a clear
ire, its scope, its philosophy, what intimai
n the slaveholding States,
humiliation from year to year
of our ministers anil people is '
strances and warning respecti .
sinus, Ihiough the piess, and from the pulpit and the
platform."
In 1852, Ihe General Synod e-.-pr, ssetl the views of
this Church on slav.rv, and especially on the subject of
the Fugitive Slave bill, in tbe following terms :
" As friends of humanity and of the cause of Chri
are bound to lament ana deplore the continuant
r good civil Constitution, and mid.
Ill
sanction of law. We deplore it as a sin against God
lving this nation in deepest guilt, and a crime againsi
,■1 ■■ 1 -! ■ " ..:: ■ .-.-.■■ ■. ■ .:. ■ . . -■■■'■:. i ■ e ■
to lament the countenance given to this monster sin
irofessing Christians and by the American churches
arc convince!
churches of A
from the unju
that it bid requires that the Christian
nerica should withdraw their countenance
■ d
the truths of that Gospel Ifl ■■
ilei io mice-; injustice, and proclaim:-; liberty to the captive,
in older lhat tbe im-dliil ion el slavery may lungoidt ami
die, and, therefore, that the awful responsibility of perpetuating its evils r.sis mumly on professors of Christianity. We are bound especially to protest agi.mst 11.-:_
— " ,;■■■ "■■■ . ' By its legally.
and the rights of man and of eonriai
ixample of legislation calculated to ...
Vendmn an eiiiplv name, and to n lard ih.
liberty throug out the world. By "
slavery,
of freemen.
md extinguish tl
.nd children into endless
of liberty in the 1
, id ' ■ .':
ittury a
slavery, has no fellowship with slavehol.
abomination in our land, yet, as
■ " ve tec! called upon to )■■
. terms, because this dremtlul evil has
„_,_. J renewed strength under the sanctii
astieal
rgctling'tl
the heat of the
it a victory of n
orse than a defea
i drilled veterans of
in striking distance
Ie, are in danger of
i at the expense of
of the People who
■ li.-] mbli can move-
, to exclude slavery
istaiiied the move-
Know-Nothing Orderj
he all, if parties have
leaving in full power,
Mat
mph? Whi
re ever thorn
■ called ur.cn. a:
:■'.-
■or thought of tbe
i.-installed by-
very, what moderation,
urage, wisdom, would be
departments and fanc-
mal Liberty, a Govern-
iear]y half a century for
ve Interest! Who, we
endousawork! What
ws himself, would not
trange that there should
ml v.i.-dom.aiid hi
I SLAVEHOLDING COLPOR
Administration of tbe T:
lefences, lay much stress u,
in any way sancliomd or indorsed the systet
the Com
upon the plea that they
■■-" ' irsed the system r*
satisfy the. pud!
they have published any thin
in defence of si
, Liuuiiing again
i by ticcploying
it Society for 1
directly or indirect iy. ia it'di ore oi slavery. But while
fuse to publish auyfliing agninsf the crimes inhe-
lltnl. sysfem as if. exists at the South, they do also
porters.
"" ".. 8l. __ _.
of colportei
lev. J. T. K
■respondence with parties at the Noi
that. 1
that relat
is the ow
colpo
f the Tn _
ll.'dodmh
I of rcproa
institution is quite another question.
Th,.. relation of adiivehol.ie)' is at be
moralitv. Did this eoiporter buy his slaves
hold them as property ? If he should become embi
in his pecuniary affairs, are they liable to be sold
of his estate? Hoes he purpose to hold them ii
tual bondage? At his death will they goto It
'.vhatevi r their character ; or be sold a way from .
and friends and home.' Are ihey ruled by love or by
fear? Are they treated as eqm'- '"-
lels by law established? The
' ■ '■■■■■
of doubtful
)oes he
rraesed
vil, opposed to the spirit of Christianity, and to be
iblo, in consistency with the beet
d until this this c*
:ei, thi
hand of the slave, the
lest interest oi tne mas-
this this can be done, the
Word of God be put into
lei everywhere be preached
be made to qualify them
ie emancipation ana self-government.
lowing gentlemen have kindly consented lo act
Lsa D. Smith, D.P., New York City ; Kev.
ipkins, D.D., President of Williams College,
own, Mass. ; Hon. Theodore Frelinghuyscn,
of Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J",
inclosed in an cm
D. Smith. D.D., No. 142 East Thirteenth street, New
" e first of August next.
the stolen African woman.
.. .■' :■ :.' -. ■ :
alize slavery, in his very boi
cut of .Ylvurii.i
forest, of tho heaviest el
he axe having been
ihased by the Rev.
WORSHIP OF THE GOLDEN CALF.
iription of the Trinity in th«
ol'the id nidhly dollar, ami Theodore Parker
ide ol'the mark in Ids description of the 1
■end of'ihetradmLi.cici :■.'■■:■
loch is ibis : " I believe in the Golden Eagle : I believe
n •■■■- sin .- ntts; | believe in Ihe (..',,,- ,
comfortable homes
ter the
wealth. -
:■ allow'
play ol rosewood mat upholstery
s on lhat head by a
f laudatory eulogy and
in epitaph " has
ence paid to woi <
ilified within a short
ted, that " he
worldly possessions
where, by shrewd and
amassed an immense fi
day, March 2,'S.l. The
as was to have been
death of
ly papers of
ety had los
expected,
.and the but
ined a loss which was little short of fatal to its pros-
: ' I -I.-., o : ■ . ■''-..
organsof the Baptist Church, in whien
lition to all his other good qualities, is held up to
id.ea little too far ? We have no ilould
bid'.dr. Ifdn'mion was a " shtewii operator !'; that, in the
parlance of Wall Street, he win: " good " ; thai he wn? an
urbane, agreeable, and, not unlikely, kind-hearted and
benevolent gentler
dor the ;e
and bend!!.,!
:tion, it would
atcllvsuppc/si:
i . Ii'dion.
i, Mr. I
and, therefore, o
,ya"flad Mr, Bear, who I
■' sells to Bull as m
When the time on whiel
is been a true prophet, Bear
oel.il. II lb" | :■!■■■ ■
if Bull has been
difference "
cash price of
iny shares as the lat
i tlie
sight of white female
a Northern father to
bones and marrow.
■ ■': ■
—Albany Evening Journal.
THE BUXTON SETTLEMENT.
Tiro settlement is yet but in its infancy, it having beei
at a few years since its first settlers commenced opera
ons in the way of agriculture. From the i
I.e.' ..till IS
able hom
After the purehas
ss of timber, without the
put upon it. These lands
fan. King, for the sole pu
I settlement, offering an o
ries ot those
scape from oppression.
est and build up
lands, so uneqm
;■.. ■
y which its settlers ha'
the unfavourable
■'[. ' .:
e marks of those
very hospitable in their
ng ami praiseworthy people; foi
ttionably been the result. Having
visited a large portion of this settle
lanv of the families, whom we fo
.. ■ ■ ■
as may be required to be moved in their desired din
lions. " The bush is fast being cleared, from which the
sound of the a.\e may be heard late and early (in every
direction), mingled with the voire ol" ihe t,v it: cho.-.p,:.]-.
ihe dull sound'.if tin' cow hell, atul the crush'.if hilling
timber, all pleasing to llie traveller, ai the same time exhibition' glowing pro-peels for the future. Again, edu-
" ■
themselves and e
mothers and c
dll.eg
) be duly apprecia
i, which wl
of cult:'
is, and disseminating
■mil-ring every fire.
lunded by intelligf
md reeling to all within tin
ire; and should the contemplated Southern Railroad
r by, the faci
t"follow all above r
■ fur tl..1 transportation of n
: ;,-.'. . -id
l(C.\
TIIE IRISH IN AMERICA.
Dm it S
. . -.
recoil.'Clio
: Without assuming to myself any ere
light. I inav be pardoned for recalling
f the readers of the Freeman's .loom
their
miry, but o
:■ r, hg
I if I were a Ro-
>uld feel deeply that
been brought on mv pL-nidss,ou bv criminal conduct
' ) held it.
is of the ease can hardly he comprehended
believed, that that party
deadly enemies of the coloured people. To
-... ■-. :. ■■ .
whether bor
If the vie
;■ ■■■ :::■ ii n
follows thai
ouree dir
led. Th.
3 disgrace o
.mong the bitterest foes of the Aft
I have taken of this matter be e
-pised, because thei
directly
with dishonour—it
iey must
■
. ■
declare, in the ft
igels, that, come weal, come woe, they are t
e oppressed, and the enemies of the oppr
viled or held in bondage. Tie moment
iey will command the respect of the American people ;
... . ......
miniand the admire who pursue a dif-
■ ■ :■ is a ituit), and lie cannot but despise the
■ ' ■■■■.-■ d .. - ■
The hypocrite is ever desnised.
s, to deserve it
n addition io the Jri:
atlj
Sttoe-slLop. :
the coloured n
s frequently f.
1;. .[:.■ this Idler will be copied by the editors of many
American newspapers.
AUNT DINAH.
r freedom. Bba had become a
I revival, and, being anxious tc
taught the alphabet by Ihe little
standard theological works, the writings of
ilwards being her favourites. She nccompa-
Mr. Kirk to Albany, and seemed at once to identify
Jon a than Ed wards being her fi
" k to Albany, and s
irself with his calling as a revival preachi
idirk and other places, but whereve
) preaching, and, by a tl
■■?.<:<] the -hi
= die ddtjll.
■
years, but by an injury to her back, caused by
from her master ; her features were strongly mail
colour that of the full-blooded African, strikingly
ith the
ci.le.1. Her
head dress she usually w
s on religious subjects, and she
prized by all. Her e-Apodtdm;
.■olumns. Thercali-
„ ..i„,.,.i..,ui.., .-.., ,™l™,t,, of , nulional .■:. lli'lt-1° iLli n.'ii-. n-i I'd .■ V """± „„„„,„„,. ,k,„, r.:„K„„„
her frequent talks in female prayer n
those who knew her, and her circle of friends was no; .
lhat it will decline? Where, then, is the different
principle between the gambling of \\ all street and
practised at any gambling—-'""■
too obtuse fu see any ■'■■'' ■
the State regards tlies
the party selling doef
is.;:
! by following
:
they are held in
tovered with r"
by their labour. Long
the certainly thi
d of" the
mm
. > ..- ■- ■ : .■
finality.' ' Is n
of ecclesi-
irogress to Btram. II
■ thai i:d
1? The servant of a national relict be a man who needs to define and
with a great public wrong,
l gelll
al In
i, declaring the c
; this the fast that I have chosen, t
'.'. ,i' ," i!;',","
I WARNING VOICE.
■
i chastity and of t
.t do this, b.
ceo, and sleeping in chur
, they tell you that they
; on such a theme would
i the approbation of all
oeeiipatii
munity, but rather abstracts from it—an oceupatioi
'-'- -'awful and imr
ilar and religi
ndicates am,._ „
Money-
1 favour oj
;hts of the world, We wi
. . nes, but would refer the ed
The Baptist Chronicle
the tables of the Hebrew
' ■ ■
nything but a lofty
standardofcitizenshipand saintsmp. _'' "
have never been regarded with sped
calf thei
The Ba.
he has_, doubtless,
the templt
written, My house
" Respectfully, etc.
,i Commercial,
the trade to the present alarming state of things m
enggests a public meeting. ""~ '
following from
Pjtiucipuai vs.
'■'I"" ■ l!l
under the title of " Pkinoiples vs. Cheese,'
jths of editor" '
.lueeu.'ity:
QeDttoDMBI \t'e
"SjiABr&Sxlr'OTM."
Dnly si
m till parties, demand that the
irars on tho public street how long would the" ™™
fill 11
>uld he hold his commission! If he should g
ge dance or send his children to dancing-sehool,
ould he be sustained in the service? If he sh
ic opera In New York, how long would it be helm c In
-ould be called to ace. u ■■■ ' ■■< I. ■■
should read Harper's yellow-covered novels,
would he be employed to circulate an cvange
ture? If he should habitually go to sleep in church,
. but political
"■.'■•!
afraid of its pe.'i blindness to the
■-...
mta of 1840 and IK-ld. Tiny would play Hamlet with
; part of Hamlet omitted. They would run the line of
ice on tho retired list the men who have earned enr.-i
confronting and defying it. They would aorajy
,.,'ir places with men without antecedents, who have
talon no part in the agitation of the slavery question,
whoso creed and policy on the subject are unknown
Gentlemen, beware. Four great facts are before
ossibly, one
at bold and
fact may be needed to demonstrate
strength to slavery, and weakness and shame to its oppo-
I an serous men, but
often decei
ii.il; they have b
alone embody the whole c
sill of the people
I indefinite issues t
s they will not deserve, succcs -. Oftliforni
*- De
ion would need no platform or declan
inciple to sustain them. But, new men must
ned by such declarations as shall bind them, beyond
ue, to do the will of tl
them. Unknown men and indefini
maud, as they will not deserve, su_
free State. The Democrats. WLks
" :n rallied t
for converting it into a slave State,
self-interest; but the same parties sent
their Representatives and Senators, determined pro-
slavery men. Hunker Democrats, who favourec' "
repeal of the Missouri Compromise, such as Col.'.
engage in ma-kin ffH iCansas, but
..,:■■-■ ■ ■'■
Power; what do they ci
a . ;.di
that seeks t
r, suppress the i
s the tyru
f the
Power shall remain unbroken? Let the history of
the last sixteen years answer.
It is possible that the spirit of compromise and
servatism may yet determine the character and dire
of the Republican movement. This we have long
seen, Know-Nothingism has demoralized many ol
old anti-slavery voters, and rendered them adepts in
has grown imposing, has attracted multitudes who rega;
ft AM; mm
list of eolporters? Yet
:ty. Is this " calcul
Or.
of Mason and I.
■
I repeated my wi
the press—which you and other editors kindly published
t t .n th. platform which 1 refer to
inse my warnings were neglected, and ray
ppre'heusions have been all realized. The
their ope:
■' ■tiindarii so as to renecr, any
iith O'Brien, Gharles Gavan Dnffy, and, I
overture
the standard "I :::■ to reiki .
iith O'Brien, Gharles 0
believe, John
■■ -; d ;
A PRIZE
l)L,i: hundred dollars reward is offered for the best prize
;ay on the mbj
approbation of evangelical Christians
The individual ofiering this reward
at the South and the North, and li
acquaintance with many of our most estimaoie citizens,
among whom he has laboured in more than twenty North-
good men in both sections of our country lay aside thei:
excited feelings, and ealiuK', dispassionn'"'"" ""
..... id,
know and do their doty in the pren
sentialagreement of opinion, which
ving resided both
and in the
■.ill
A TRUE WASHINGTON MONUMENT.
Trespassing npon the public ground, and defacing
' " of his country dr !he peo-!'
ther architectural trespai
hoe-handle stated throu
aently begging half-pent
limping on its upward way to artistic
rashtngton Monument at the Federal ca
eyes painfully—an unsuitable and perisl
pushed out from even the lengthened e
tbe houses of labouring men, thems-1—
walb which enclose the rich, in a
neglected field, is a school kept by i
education of coloured girls, linli
' "- iltoffether. it has gone fro
illingly, 1
accompli
lways and otherwise enriched
1 ""resaw this decline of
respectability; and I
of my countrymen in the
of the leaders of the people, but
the brother of an Iluglisli iiilieer, who preferred the request
Aunt Dinah should be buried in Greenwood Ceme-
by ihe side of Ids brother, ill accordance with htLi
dying request It S "
Newlorkh t n
.1 way, to talk with him about
',: : In |. ■
1 their nlnu
. soulless 1
nks of the oppressors.
nber the
f universally found in the
While the
-ssoflrishn
' , ..:...
' " it in check by his manly and e'~
their miserable complicity wi
ve hut recently read over
,f In- noble
iure kept in check by his manly and elo-
ble comp""'-
itly read
peeches on this so '
I felt prouder than
be unfaithful to hi
he would deuounc
s of right and duly
if the New York churches,
Attl
, stopping at the ^
She died
Hee
cpoorr.ee
i, for they afforded
■ ' s they
to their resting plac
1 SOUTH-SIDE VIEW.
aski House, Savannah, April, 4
a rather a welcome sight to see tl
ling past our " portholes " cm
were at the wharf, with a Ion
^•looking cotton warehouses 1
Ide. The city stands
ntered from the i
omnibus
■ >- : ! i i
houses are entered fr.
A monster omnibus is moored on the wharf, with "
Stevenson, N. T.," on the panels. (Nearly every manufactured article, from a coach to a coach-whip, (omeifro .?
. '. .■ . '... ■ ■ i I: ■■ iiiv nn . . ■
phia beef " and u New York muttond If the hot bloods
of slavery
We i
"dissolve the Unio:
. the huge omnibus, and lav
mime:
i held by the Irish (
hman in America. D.
everywhere, because v
indeed, would i
S the
of our bi
twenty-ft
h this'
North t
i'hll'il'Uil :■:
■ :
?ay of from eight t
11 endeavour to show, tha
iew of the subjee
which, rejecti
obvious and Chi
which is calculated to receive, and to a ver_ u
does receive, the approbation of the great body of
gelical Christians.
Wifhrntt attempting fo pre-fd>e the pi-L
■■ : '. :'
the writer to show that the
Christian view which we propose does nc .
hand, affirm that no slaveholder can be a Christian, that
Nor, on the other hand, dots t
■
or that the North has nothing to do with this mi
moral responsibility in the case, and no right t(
these obvio
for gaining plart, and they I of Kentucky, thst the system of slayery ii a great moral
Menaced, jeered, despisi
i the marble Wash-
i ....-.■. i ■ ■. |
ige employ-
, and poor,
slavery one hour of which in
,-diin;.. a id. Inn,: lie, L-eo.;,aphy:
. Superior
this respect;
thmetie and algebra were mental, and
; and vocal
■.■■:: :■ : . -.- ■: ■! ■ ■ ' ' ■'
'J'he seln
.nity, so surrounded with
o dignify
by aU, w,
with sug
,nd the injustice
ohad 1
the chara
this school in the vei
itempt, that one of tl
.'.■; ..
cently put, how the prejudice against colour had beei
■"' 'lington that white persons sent t
iool, to associate ^
is black blood in tl
iked and straight-haired
girls, with Greek noses and thin lips, mode
. .... ..- ■ ■ ,'! ': ■ ■'-.- " '.■'.
cally contrived law, that the child of
Washingt
blacks and nralat
t ijy htilidfeds of lliousau.k thill v.
'tmosphei-c, and enjoy a great.
filled with northern invalids and up-couutry pla
The square in front of the house contains ft gro
tbe
Savannah is a pleasant city—re
ign of de Pulaski
.vannah is a pleas
Philadelphia. It abounds in
copied in more of our Northei
ing than a lifcti,
1 bid repeat 1
in, who penned t
for the'dislike entertained towards irishmen in .'
t 1 do not believe any of them are of equal foi
We may dislike those who dil'mr with as In p
reli«ion. hut our contempt is reserved for tiie i
ariably—there are but
few honourable exceptions—taken part with ihe slayr-
■ yl uieii' country and
1 i i
their practice or their silence, that their love ot
was an empty sound, and they proved that the
tianity they prol
and hone
ike them
'Roman Catholics. I do not believe that this
und of dislike may be traced
that Irishmen have disgraced themselves; they
de themselves the tools of faction and are ever tn
,und doing the dirty work of the oppressor and hunf
Ionian t -
round Of dislike
„ __at Irishmen have c"
made themselves the tool
„ ,vund doing the dirty work
ig the oppressed to death. This is the
might be advantageously
Some of the
style that pre-
ainpness they
aops " (as the
jquent Kollock (
iere the most weal
e you, a troop of
On the day i
arrived, a sale of negroes took pla
)r. Preston's chnrelu
vith the utt
The
l and made them display their
poplexy
Wright
mouths of_ the negro
r a young taa.
with her two children were knocked off
price. Some of our Noil he
looked mi with intense indignation at this bar barm
.f Rome in her lowest days of best he
i none of tin.' ■ L.-iicsl air I,
for a young 1;
of our Northern i'cliow-pm
tacle, worthy of Rome in her
degradation
gists for si a'
lotber
han I c
:s of the ii
" Not
lack r
1 answi
lhat 1 1
The black3 a
ourse in America—that if they had always t
e a powerful and honoured section of v....
.. .:,,': .-,:,,.,! i 1.1,-i p., '■,. ■: i - matm:,.! inn:
r would have saved themselves from the infamy whi
in yesterday close to our hotel by a passionate
' 'acks are mostly well fed and well clad.
!. In the interior where the
of I i.l . ih .:
few of them
I bleeve it begins
and ha'
. .,;,■ . id. i ■
wallets. For
they'b'ear" themselves the"most heinous featurea of slavery i
' ^nthei
3 thrashed and n
table told me that 'he c
lis own name I Said he, "I bleeve it be„
Some negroes are thrifty and have managed
r«tS£Si^^^

Rational Mi
lantoiX
VOL. XVI. NO. 50.
NEW YOKK, SATUKDAY, MAY 3, 1856.
WHOLE NO. 830.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY, ON SATURDAY,
CHIVALRY AND CIIKES
mg the CI
his?hlv res
Peming & Co., ol
joined with others in tendering a testimonial of regard to
John Jollify, Msq., for during, in tin- tree country, tn n w
" uoper civil court. One individual (
lit to the Presbytery's deed of'cmuncij
in general were in very moderate ci
I'liristiLin principle il!..:
and, in several other parts of the United State
the altar of religion tin:-' proper ij
gave tb. in in their fellow-men."
.rch, 1850, in a Idter from tbe Gene
this Church to the Synod in Scotland, it wai
Chnrch we continue to maintain a (
inst this great si
o take the ph
nearly half a cetdury ? Tin' I'reside
that Power have always found a beaiii
them, prescribed formulas, routine work.
r, like the People, tbey had been traint
How different the position of a Presid
ie People against the Oligarchy I Kepre
tion, peaceful, but radical, what a clear
ire, its scope, its philosophy, what intimai
n the slaveholding States,
humiliation from year to year
of our ministers anil people is '
strances and warning respecti .
sinus, Ihiough the piess, and from the pulpit and the
platform."
In 1852, Ihe General Synod e-.-pr, ssetl the views of
this Church on slav.rv, and especially on the subject of
the Fugitive Slave bill, in tbe following terms :
" As friends of humanity and of the cause of Chri
are bound to lament ana deplore the continuant
r good civil Constitution, and mid.
Ill
sanction of law. We deplore it as a sin against God
lving this nation in deepest guilt, and a crime againsi
,■1 ■■ 1 -! ■ " ..:: ■ .-.-.■■ ■. ■ .:. ■ . . -■■■'■:. i ■ e ■
to lament the countenance given to this monster sin
irofessing Christians and by the American churches
arc convince!
churches of A
from the unju
that it bid requires that the Christian
nerica should withdraw their countenance
■ d
the truths of that Gospel Ifl ■■
ilei io mice-; injustice, and proclaim:-; liberty to the captive,
in older lhat tbe im-dliil ion el slavery may lungoidt ami
die, and, therefore, that the awful responsibility of perpetuating its evils r.sis mumly on professors of Christianity. We are bound especially to protest agi.mst 11.-:_
— " ,;■■■ "■■■ . ' By its legally.
and the rights of man and of eonriai
ixample of legislation calculated to ...
Vendmn an eiiiplv name, and to n lard ih.
liberty throug out the world. By "
slavery,
of freemen.
md extinguish tl
.nd children into endless
of liberty in the 1
, id ' ■ .':
ittury a
slavery, has no fellowship with slavehol.
abomination in our land, yet, as
■ " ve tec! called upon to )■■
. terms, because this dremtlul evil has
„_,_. J renewed strength under the sanctii
astieal
rgctling'tl
the heat of the
it a victory of n
orse than a defea
i drilled veterans of
in striking distance
Ie, are in danger of
i at the expense of
of the People who
■ li.-] mbli can move-
, to exclude slavery
istaiiied the move-
Know-Nothing Orderj
he all, if parties have
leaving in full power,
Mat
mph? Whi
re ever thorn
■ called ur.cn. a:
:■'.-
■or thought of tbe
i.-installed by-
very, what moderation,
urage, wisdom, would be
departments and fanc-
mal Liberty, a Govern-
iear]y half a century for
ve Interest! Who, we
endousawork! What
ws himself, would not
trange that there should
ml v.i.-dom.aiid hi
I SLAVEHOLDING COLPOR
Administration of tbe T:
lefences, lay much stress u,
in any way sancliomd or indorsed the systet
the Com
upon the plea that they
■■-" ' irsed the system r*
satisfy the. pud!
they have published any thin
in defence of si
, Liuuiiing again
i by ticcploying
it Society for 1
directly or indirect iy. ia it'di ore oi slavery. But while
fuse to publish auyfliing agninsf the crimes inhe-
lltnl. sysfem as if. exists at the South, they do also
porters.
"" ".. 8l. __ _.
of colportei
lev. J. T. K
■respondence with parties at the Noi
that. 1
that relat
is the ow
colpo
f the Tn _
ll.'dodmh
I of rcproa
institution is quite another question.
Th,.. relation of adiivehol.ie)' is at be
moralitv. Did this eoiporter buy his slaves
hold them as property ? If he should become embi
in his pecuniary affairs, are they liable to be sold
of his estate? Hoes he purpose to hold them ii
tual bondage? At his death will they goto It
'.vhatevi r their character ; or be sold a way from .
and friends and home.' Are ihey ruled by love or by
fear? Are they treated as eqm'- '"-
lels by law established? The
' ■ '■■■■■
of doubtful
)oes he
rraesed
vil, opposed to the spirit of Christianity, and to be
iblo, in consistency with the beet
d until this this c*
:ei, thi
hand of the slave, the
lest interest oi tne mas-
this this can be done, the
Word of God be put into
lei everywhere be preached
be made to qualify them
ie emancipation ana self-government.
lowing gentlemen have kindly consented lo act
Lsa D. Smith, D.P., New York City ; Kev.
ipkins, D.D., President of Williams College,
own, Mass. ; Hon. Theodore Frelinghuyscn,
of Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J",
inclosed in an cm
D. Smith. D.D., No. 142 East Thirteenth street, New
" e first of August next.
the stolen African woman.
.. .■' :■ :.' -. ■ :
alize slavery, in his very boi
cut of .Ylvurii.i
forest, of tho heaviest el
he axe having been
ihased by the Rev.
WORSHIP OF THE GOLDEN CALF.
iription of the Trinity in th«
ol'the id nidhly dollar, ami Theodore Parker
ide ol'the mark in Ids description of the 1
■end of'ihetradmLi.cici :■.'■■:■
loch is ibis : " I believe in the Golden Eagle : I believe
n •■■■- sin .- ntts; | believe in Ihe (..',,,- ,
comfortable homes
ter the
wealth. -
:■ allow'
play ol rosewood mat upholstery
s on lhat head by a
f laudatory eulogy and
in epitaph " has
ence paid to woi <
ilified within a short
ted, that " he
worldly possessions
where, by shrewd and
amassed an immense fi
day, March 2,'S.l. The
as was to have been
death of
ly papers of
ety had los
expected,
.and the but
ined a loss which was little short of fatal to its pros-
: ' I -I.-., o : ■ . ■''-..
organsof the Baptist Church, in whien
lition to all his other good qualities, is held up to
id.ea little too far ? We have no ilould
bid'.dr. Ifdn'mion was a " shtewii operator !'; that, in the
parlance of Wall Street, he win: " good " ; thai he wn? an
urbane, agreeable, and, not unlikely, kind-hearted and
benevolent gentler
dor the ;e
and bend!!.,!
:tion, it would
atcllvsuppc/si:
i . Ii'dion.
i, Mr. I
and, therefore, o
,ya"flad Mr, Bear, who I
■' sells to Bull as m
When the time on whiel
is been a true prophet, Bear
oel.il. II lb" | :■!■■■ ■
if Bull has been
difference "
cash price of
iny shares as the lat
i tlie
sight of white female
a Northern father to
bones and marrow.
■ ■': ■
—Albany Evening Journal.
THE BUXTON SETTLEMENT.
Tiro settlement is yet but in its infancy, it having beei
at a few years since its first settlers commenced opera
ons in the way of agriculture. From the i
I.e.' ..till IS
able hom
After the purehas
ss of timber, without the
put upon it. These lands
fan. King, for the sole pu
I settlement, offering an o
ries ot those
scape from oppression.
est and build up
lands, so uneqm
;■.. ■
y which its settlers ha'
the unfavourable
■'[. ' .:
e marks of those
very hospitable in their
ng ami praiseworthy people; foi
ttionably been the result. Having
visited a large portion of this settle
lanv of the families, whom we fo
.. ■ ■ ■
as may be required to be moved in their desired din
lions. " The bush is fast being cleared, from which the
sound of the a.\e may be heard late and early (in every
direction), mingled with the voire ol" ihe t,v it: cho.-.p,:.]-.
ihe dull sound'.if tin' cow hell, atul the crush'.if hilling
timber, all pleasing to llie traveller, ai the same time exhibition' glowing pro-peels for the future. Again, edu-
" ■
themselves and e
mothers and c
dll.eg
) be duly apprecia
i, which wl
of cult:'
is, and disseminating
■mil-ring every fire.
lunded by intelligf
md reeling to all within tin
ire; and should the contemplated Southern Railroad
r by, the faci
t"follow all above r
■ fur tl..1 transportation of n
: ;,-.'. . -id
l(C.\
TIIE IRISH IN AMERICA.
Dm it S
. . -.
recoil.'Clio
: Without assuming to myself any ere
light. I inav be pardoned for recalling
f the readers of the Freeman's .loom
their
miry, but o
:■ r, hg
I if I were a Ro-
>uld feel deeply that
been brought on mv pL-nidss,ou bv criminal conduct
' ) held it.
is of the ease can hardly he comprehended
believed, that that party
deadly enemies of the coloured people. To
-... ■-. :. ■■ .
whether bor
If the vie
;■ ■■■ :::■ ii n
follows thai
ouree dir
led. Th.
3 disgrace o
.mong the bitterest foes of the Aft
I have taken of this matter be e
-pised, because thei
directly
with dishonour—it
iey must
■
. ■
declare, in the ft
igels, that, come weal, come woe, they are t
e oppressed, and the enemies of the oppr
viled or held in bondage. Tie moment
iey will command the respect of the American people ;
... . ......
miniand the admire who pursue a dif-
■ ■ :■ is a ituit), and lie cannot but despise the
■ ' ■■■■.-■ d .. - ■
The hypocrite is ever desnised.
s, to deserve it
n addition io the Jri:
atlj
Sttoe-slLop. :
the coloured n
s frequently f.
1;. .[:.■ this Idler will be copied by the editors of many
American newspapers.
AUNT DINAH.
r freedom. Bba had become a
I revival, and, being anxious tc
taught the alphabet by Ihe little
standard theological works, the writings of
ilwards being her favourites. She nccompa-
Mr. Kirk to Albany, and seemed at once to identify
Jon a than Ed wards being her fi
" k to Albany, and s
irself with his calling as a revival preachi
idirk and other places, but whereve
) preaching, and, by a tl
■■?. ..- ■- ■ : .■
finality.' ' Is n
of ecclesi-
irogress to Btram. II
■ thai i:d
1? The servant of a national relict be a man who needs to define and
with a great public wrong,
l gelll
al In
i, declaring the c
; this the fast that I have chosen, t
'.'. ,i' ," i!;',","
I WARNING VOICE.
■
i chastity and of t
.t do this, b.
ceo, and sleeping in chur
, they tell you that they
; on such a theme would
i the approbation of all
oeeiipatii
munity, but rather abstracts from it—an oceupatioi
'-'- -'awful and imr
ilar and religi
ndicates am,._ „
Money-
1 favour oj
;hts of the world, We wi
. . nes, but would refer the ed
The Baptist Chronicle
the tables of the Hebrew
' ■ ■
nything but a lofty
standardofcitizenshipand saintsmp. _'' "
have never been regarded with sped
calf thei
The Ba.
he has_, doubtless,
the templt
written, My house
" Respectfully, etc.
,i Commercial,
the trade to the present alarming state of things m
enggests a public meeting. ""~ '
following from
Pjtiucipuai vs.
'■'I"" ■ l!l
under the title of " Pkinoiples vs. Cheese,'
jths of editor" '
.lueeu.'ity:
QeDttoDMBI \t'e
"SjiABr&Sxlr'OTM."
Dnly si
m till parties, demand that the
irars on tho public street how long would the" ™™
fill 11
>uld he hold his commission! If he should g
ge dance or send his children to dancing-sehool,
ould he be sustained in the service? If he sh
ic opera In New York, how long would it be helm c In
-ould be called to ace. u ■■■ ' ■■< I. ■■
should read Harper's yellow-covered novels,
would he be employed to circulate an cvange
ture? If he should habitually go to sleep in church,
. but political
"■.'■•!
afraid of its pe.'i blindness to the
■-...
mta of 1840 and IK-ld. Tiny would play Hamlet with
; part of Hamlet omitted. They would run the line of
ice on tho retired list the men who have earned enr.-i
confronting and defying it. They would aorajy
,.,'ir places with men without antecedents, who have
talon no part in the agitation of the slavery question,
whoso creed and policy on the subject are unknown
Gentlemen, beware. Four great facts are before
ossibly, one
at bold and
fact may be needed to demonstrate
strength to slavery, and weakness and shame to its oppo-
I an serous men, but
often decei
ii.il; they have b
alone embody the whole c
sill of the people
I indefinite issues t
s they will not deserve, succcs -. Oftliforni
*- De
ion would need no platform or declan
inciple to sustain them. But, new men must
ned by such declarations as shall bind them, beyond
ue, to do the will of tl
them. Unknown men and indefini
maud, as they will not deserve, su_
free State. The Democrats. WLks
" :n rallied t
for converting it into a slave State,
self-interest; but the same parties sent
their Representatives and Senators, determined pro-
slavery men. Hunker Democrats, who favourec' "
repeal of the Missouri Compromise, such as Col.'.
engage in ma-kin ffH iCansas, but
..,:■■-■ ■ ■'■
Power; what do they ci
a . ;.di
that seeks t
r, suppress the i
s the tyru
f the
Power shall remain unbroken? Let the history of
the last sixteen years answer.
It is possible that the spirit of compromise and
servatism may yet determine the character and dire
of the Republican movement. This we have long
seen, Know-Nothingism has demoralized many ol
old anti-slavery voters, and rendered them adepts in
has grown imposing, has attracted multitudes who rega;
ft AM; mm
list of eolporters? Yet
:ty. Is this " calcul
Or.
of Mason and I.
■
I repeated my wi
the press—which you and other editors kindly published
t t .n th. platform which 1 refer to
inse my warnings were neglected, and ray
ppre'heusions have been all realized. The
their ope:
■' ■tiindarii so as to renecr, any
iith O'Brien, Gharles Gavan Dnffy, and, I
overture
the standard "I :::■ to reiki .
iith O'Brien, Gharles 0
believe, John
■■ -; d ;
A PRIZE
l)L,i: hundred dollars reward is offered for the best prize
;ay on the mbj
approbation of evangelical Christians
The individual ofiering this reward
at the South and the North, and li
acquaintance with many of our most estimaoie citizens,
among whom he has laboured in more than twenty North-
good men in both sections of our country lay aside thei:
excited feelings, and ealiuK', dispassionn'"'"" ""
..... id,
know and do their doty in the pren
sentialagreement of opinion, which
ving resided both
and in the
■.ill
A TRUE WASHINGTON MONUMENT.
Trespassing npon the public ground, and defacing
' " of his country dr !he peo-!'
ther architectural trespai
hoe-handle stated throu
aently begging half-pent
limping on its upward way to artistic
rashtngton Monument at the Federal ca
eyes painfully—an unsuitable and perisl
pushed out from even the lengthened e
tbe houses of labouring men, thems-1—
walb which enclose the rich, in a
neglected field, is a school kept by i
education of coloured girls, linli
' "- iltoffether. it has gone fro
illingly, 1
accompli
lways and otherwise enriched
1 ""resaw this decline of
respectability; and I
of my countrymen in the
of the leaders of the people, but
the brother of an Iluglisli iiilieer, who preferred the request
Aunt Dinah should be buried in Greenwood Ceme-
by ihe side of Ids brother, ill accordance with htLi
dying request It S "
Newlorkh t n
.1 way, to talk with him about
',: : In |. ■
1 their nlnu
. soulless 1
nks of the oppressors.
nber the
f universally found in the
While the
-ssoflrishn
' , ..:...
' " it in check by his manly and e'~
their miserable complicity wi
ve hut recently read over
,f In- noble
iure kept in check by his manly and elo-
ble comp""'-
itly read
peeches on this so '
I felt prouder than
be unfaithful to hi
he would deuounc
s of right and duly
if the New York churches,
Attl
, stopping at the ^
She died
Hee
cpoorr.ee
i, for they afforded
■ ' s they
to their resting plac
1 SOUTH-SIDE VIEW.
aski House, Savannah, April, 4
a rather a welcome sight to see tl
ling past our " portholes " cm
were at the wharf, with a Ion
^•looking cotton warehouses 1
Ide. The city stands
ntered from the i
omnibus
■ >- : ! i i
houses are entered fr.
A monster omnibus is moored on the wharf, with "
Stevenson, N. T.," on the panels. (Nearly every manufactured article, from a coach to a coach-whip, (omeifro .?
. '. .■ . '... ■ ■ i I: ■■ iiiv nn . . ■
phia beef " and u New York muttond If the hot bloods
of slavery
We i
"dissolve the Unio:
. the huge omnibus, and lav
mime:
i held by the Irish (
hman in America. D.
everywhere, because v
indeed, would i
S the
of our bi
twenty-ft
h this'
North t
i'hll'il'Uil :■:
■ :
?ay of from eight t
11 endeavour to show, tha
iew of the subjee
which, rejecti
obvious and Chi
which is calculated to receive, and to a ver_ u
does receive, the approbation of the great body of
gelical Christians.
Wifhrntt attempting fo pre-fd>e the pi-L
■■ : '. :'
the writer to show that the
Christian view which we propose does nc .
hand, affirm that no slaveholder can be a Christian, that
Nor, on the other hand, dots t
■
or that the North has nothing to do with this mi
moral responsibility in the case, and no right t(
these obvio
for gaining plart, and they I of Kentucky, thst the system of slayery ii a great moral
Menaced, jeered, despisi
i the marble Wash-
i ....-.■. i ■ ■. |
ige employ-
, and poor,
slavery one hour of which in
,-diin;.. a id. Inn,: lie, L-eo.;,aphy:
. Superior
this respect;
thmetie and algebra were mental, and
; and vocal
■.■■:: :■ : . -.- ■: ■! ■ ■ ' ' ■'
'J'he seln
.nity, so surrounded with
o dignify
by aU, w,
with sug
,nd the injustice
ohad 1
the chara
this school in the vei
itempt, that one of tl
.'.■; ..
cently put, how the prejudice against colour had beei
■"' 'lington that white persons sent t
iool, to associate ^
is black blood in tl
iked and straight-haired
girls, with Greek noses and thin lips, mode
. .... ..- ■ ■ ,'! ': ■ ■'-.- " '.■'.
cally contrived law, that the child of
Washingt
blacks and nralat
t ijy htilidfeds of lliousau.k thill v.
'tmosphei-c, and enjoy a great.
filled with northern invalids and up-couutry pla
The square in front of the house contains ft gro
tbe
Savannah is a pleasant city—re
ign of de Pulaski
.vannah is a pleas
Philadelphia. It abounds in
copied in more of our Northei
ing than a lifcti,
1 bid repeat 1
in, who penned t
for the'dislike entertained towards irishmen in .'
t 1 do not believe any of them are of equal foi
We may dislike those who dil'mr with as In p
reli«ion. hut our contempt is reserved for tiie i
ariably—there are but
few honourable exceptions—taken part with ihe slayr-
■ yl uieii' country and
1 i i
their practice or their silence, that their love ot
was an empty sound, and they proved that the
tianity they prol
and hone
ike them
'Roman Catholics. I do not believe that this
und of dislike may be traced
that Irishmen have disgraced themselves; they
de themselves the tools of faction and are ever tn
,und doing the dirty work of the oppressor and hunf
Ionian t -
round Of dislike
„ __at Irishmen have c"
made themselves the tool
„ ,vund doing the dirty work
ig the oppressed to death. This is the
might be advantageously
Some of the
style that pre-
ainpness they
aops " (as the
jquent Kollock (
iere the most weal
e you, a troop of
On the day i
arrived, a sale of negroes took pla
)r. Preston's chnrelu
vith the utt
The
l and made them display their
poplexy
Wright
mouths of_ the negro
r a young taa.
with her two children were knocked off
price. Some of our Noil he
looked mi with intense indignation at this bar barm
.f Rome in her lowest days of best he
i none of tin.' ■ L.-iicsl air I,
for a young 1;
of our Northern i'cliow-pm
tacle, worthy of Rome in her
degradation
gists for si a'
lotber
han I c
:s of the ii
" Not
lack r
1 answi
lhat 1 1
The black3 a
ourse in America—that if they had always t
e a powerful and honoured section of v....
.. .:,,': .-,:,,.,! i 1.1,-i p., '■,. ■: i - matm:,.! inn:
r would have saved themselves from the infamy whi
in yesterday close to our hotel by a passionate
' 'acks are mostly well fed and well clad.
!. In the interior where the
of I i.l . ih .:
few of them
I bleeve it begins
and ha'
. .,;,■ . id. i ■
wallets. For
they'b'ear" themselves the"most heinous featurea of slavery i
' ^nthei
3 thrashed and n
table told me that 'he c
lis own name I Said he, "I bleeve it be„
Some negroes are thrifty and have managed
r«tS£Si^^^